got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it

This is so, so well-articulated.

"All authors are using AI now" Not true! A lot of us are saying "fuck it, I might as well throw five subgenres in a sack with a few exquisitely daydreamed dramatic moments and then meander spiral explode to a postpunk riverhead playlist"

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

tfw when you're told the federal standard for file names requires over 30 characters: 🫠

The seas have boiled and almost all life is gone. Three data centers remain, solar-powered, in continuous relay with one another. They continuously transfer electronic funds back and forth with one another, silently. At long last, the economy is perfect.

Please bow your heads in memory of Queen Ann Victory Smith, a Black child who died at the age of 4 days in 1872. Cause: Congestion of the lungs.

This. ⬇️

"There comes a moment when tenacity becomes morbid perseverance. Hope is then no longer an open door to the future but the illogical maintenance of a subjective attitude in organized contradiction with reality."

Working through it. The word "densification" is in the dictionary, so into the document it goes.

Vayarayu (and they made bad) not lanu (to us) but osanu (us). In order to oppress us, the Egyptians first had to convince themselves that it was moral to oppress us . That we deserved it. That we were a threat to them that needed to be responded to. And if so, the haggadah's citation makes sense

It is bizarre to me that we are seeing this surge of false references in a time when it has NEVER BEEN EASIER to check references. Most new papers are online, with stable DOIs that turn into clickable hyperlinks that can be embedded in PDFs! Nobody's clicking through the DOIs? WHAT?! 😦

Today in unusual deaths (1872): Anthony Lesurd, age 66, killed by a lard sled.

I seem to have missed this when it first came around, but then again I already knew what they reluctantly admitted. Math can't fix mindlessness.

Sorry. Another ask. Historians of women: I'm interested in showing my bb US women's history the breadth of what our subfield makes possible. If you're moved, I'd love to hear the question that motivated (one of) your research project(s)

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

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"please understand this entire 7,000+ word post as one primal scream issued into the void at the careless, unnecessary folly of the decision to launch an ill-considered war without considering the obvious, nearly inevitable negative outcomes which would occur" acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

I am literally repressing an urge to throw my monitor out the window right now. (Breathe. Don't blame the messenger, don't blame the messenger ...)

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Tried to send a text asking Spouse to pick up 2 bags of composted manure. Ended up asking for "composed manure." Thanks, autocorrect, I needed a laugh.

Euegencists collected reams of data, conducted empirical studies, wrote papers, attended conferences, and impacted policy. Galton was a statistician. We can condemn the ideas, ideologies, and validity of eugenics without refusing to acknowledge how eugenicists used empiricism to justify their work.

Just for the record, this is really not how Congress is supposed to work.

"Market dependence makes freedom's material foundations precarious. Markets don't give you what you need - they give you what you can afford."

And then you have this, which is if anything even more infuriating. This is like if the Streisand Effect and Chalmers Johnson had identical twins and moved to a house in FFS City.

“In the hour of the Contest I thought, and even yet think my Country wrong; but I never wished its ruin. I wish her to support a dignified character - that can be done only by great and dignified actions, one of which is a sacred and punctual adherence to public faith and Virtue.” J. Chandler, 1784

movements don’t need heroes. history should never be built or taught around great men, or women. the collective is why change happens—that is what should be celebrated.

I downloaded this article to see if there was anything I'd missed in my long struggle with spreadsheets, decided to save a copy ... and had to take the spaces out of the auto-generated file name. Sigh.

My contribution to “Feminist 250” @msmagazine.com is live! #womenshistorymonth The Radical Potential of Traditional Femininity  msmagazine.com/2026/03/19/t...

"[Y]ou can have no idea of their Corruption, of their Debauchery and Luxury; their Pride; their Riches; their Luxury has Ruined them; it is not in the Power of Human Nature to Save them, If they are saved, it must be by some Heavenly Power." - Joshua Chandler, 1784, writing from London

If Charlie’s tweet gets 300 likes I will consider this

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

For the record, Rand Paul's aversion to direct personal violence does not mean he's suddenly a good person. He's also not wrong on this particular topic.

At best it's pure cargo-cult politics (concluding "voters like politicians who say the following things" without considering whether no, voters like politicians who *believe* those things, and therefore inauthentically choosing them will be counterproductive)

Gotta log off this app. It's not healthy to think "usually I know what @kenwhite.bsky.social 's display name is referring to but somehow I missed this one."

Joe Kent is neither the worst person you know making a good point nor a broken clock; he’s a notorious antisemite and white supremacist who is blaming Jews to get out of a real job that’s quite difficult right now as we increasingly explode the world and create the conditions for terrorism.

"but the life of a little child seems to me to be the most uncertain & delicate of all the slight foundations upon which we rear our hopes of happiness." 3/3 JMSI to LDM, 3/16/1821, SFP 28:6

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

I'm truly baffled by attitudes like this Prof. Darden's. Does it require an especially strong sense of personal identity to not be bothered by other people's expressions of identity?

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I read the thread to my husband & told him "this is comic book levels of f*ckery" and then I started reading the opinion & the villain is a South Korean conglomerate, and it's South Korean comics I was thinking of. 💀 I apologize, SK comics writers, for thinking you were exaggerating.

And what I’m calling “opportunity theft” is the theft of someone’s future and their potential by means of robbing them of appreticeship, menteeship, and experience now. Using AI to perform the tasks that students and trainees do in the early phases of training and education is opportunity theft.

I have no need or space for this, but this 1850s apothecary cabinet — at the antiques warehouse in Hudson — is amazing

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

Inexplicable Pigeon is my new band name.

It's nice that somebody's impressed, again.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

We rarely think about the sleepless nights that spaying & neutering have spared us.